Harcum College is a two-year associate degree granting school located in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Established
as Harcum Post Graduate School by pianist and music educator Edith Hatcher Harcum in 1915, Harcum began as a university preparatory
school for women, but added junior college-level classes shortly thereafter and officially became Harcum Junior College in
the 1920s. In 1955, Harcum became the first two-year college in Pennsylvania authorized to grant associate degrees. As of
2016, the school, now known as Harcum College, offers over 20 degree programs to traditional and non-traditional students.
The Harcum College Archives small manuscripts collection, 1930-2010, consists of small amounts of photographs, scrapbooks,
memorabilia, ephemera, and other materials from various alumni of Harcum College. The materials document each alumnae's time
at Harcum. A small amount of records from the Iota Kappa chapter (Harcum College) of Phi Theta Kappa are also present in the
collection. (View full finding aid.)

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Harcum College Archives small manuscripts collection

creator

Harcum Junior College

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HCA.02

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extent

1.75 linear feet

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1930-2010

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Harcum College is a two-year associate degree granting school located in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Established
as Harcum Post Graduate School by pianist and music educator Edith Hatcher Harcum in 1915, Harcum began as a university preparatory
school for women, but added junior college-level classes shortly thereafter and officially became Harcum Junior College in
the 1920s. In 1955, Harcum became the first two-year college in Pennsylvania authorized to grant associate degrees. As of
2016, the school, now known as Harcum College, offers over 20 degree programs to traditional and non-traditional students.
The Harcum College Archives small manuscripts collection, 1930-2010, consists of small amounts of photographs, scrapbooks,
memorabilia, ephemera, and other materials from various alumni of Harcum College. The materials document each alumnae's time
at Harcum. A small amount of records from the Iota Kappa chapter (Harcum College) of Phi Theta Kappa are also present in the
collection.

Harcum College is a two-year associate degree granting school located in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Established
as Harcum Post Graduate School by pianist and music educator Edith Hatcher Harcum in 1915, Harcum began as a university preparatory
school for women, but added junior college-level classes shortly thereafter and officially became Harcum Junior College in
the 1920s. In 1955, Harcum became the first two-year college in Pennsylvania authorized to grant associate degrees. As of
2016, the school, now known as Harcum College, offers over 20 degree programs to traditional and non-traditional students.
The Harcum Junior College records, 1918-2016, consist of administrative records, printed matter and published materials, photographs
and audiovisual materials, oversized materials, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other materials documenting the school
and its faculty, students, buildings, curriculum, and activities. (View full finding aid.)

title

Harcum Junior College records

creator

Harcum Junior College

id

HCA.01

repository

extent

80 linear feet

inclusive date

1918-2016

bulk date

abstract/scope/contents

Harcum College is a two-year associate degree granting school located in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Established
as Harcum Post Graduate School by pianist and music educator Edith Hatcher Harcum in 1915, Harcum began as a university preparatory
school for women, but added junior college-level classes shortly thereafter and officially became Harcum Junior College in
the 1920s. In 1955, Harcum became the first two-year college in Pennsylvania authorized to grant associate degrees. As of
2016, the school, now known as Harcum College, offers over 20 degree programs to traditional and non-traditional students.
The Harcum Junior College records, 1918-2016, consist of administrative records, printed matter and published materials, photographs
and audiovisual materials, oversized materials, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other materials documenting the school
and its faculty, students, buildings, curriculum, and activities.

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